A Macroeconomic Study of Federal and State Automotive Regulations with Recommendations for Analysts, Regulators, and Legislators

With REMI PI, the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs comprehensively analyzed the variety of effects attached to recent automotive regulations on the state and federal levels. After dividing the nation into nine distinct regions, an array of factors impacting the automotive industry are modeled and weighed against one another to accurately iron out which areas need which policies and which policies at-risk areas should avoid. Only the regions that produced their own oil or rely heavily on automotive manufacturing industries did not see immediate benefits, and the benefits for those regions are actually just more long-term than the others.